Nassau Bahamas-1964: Port with Ships and Storage Tanks

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationNassau, Bahamas
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Nassau Bahamas

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Port with Ships and Storage Tanks — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a panoramic view of Nassau, Bahamas, overlooking a bustling port. The clip reveals a sprawling industrial waterfront with numerous large storage tanks, cranes, and docked ships under a partly cloudy sky. The footage, framed by dark window edges, shows a slow pan across the harbor, highlighting the maritime activity and coastal infrastructure. The distinct blue and purple color grading of the Super 8 film gives it a nostalgic, authentic 1960s feel, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123994946

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1838 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: cruise in carribean
Reel-level year note: 1964
Reel-level location note: carribean,st. thomas,virgin islands,martenque,grenada,venezuela,curacao,nassau
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Nassau, Bahamas Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm harbor view useful for documentary or educational edits needing Nassau waterfront, maritime infrastructure, and coastal-industrial atmosphere.
Period detail: The storage tanks, low harbor buildings, working ships, and color 8mm travel-film look support a mid-1960s visitor view, with no specific landmark identification visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a tourist or visitor-shot viewpoint from behind dark foreground edges, observing the harbor from an elevated overlook rather than staging activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue harbor, storage tanks, docked vessels, low industrial buildings, distant shoreline, cloudy sky, and dark film-frame or window edges.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, visible grain, blue-purple color shift, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing typical of aged 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, maritime cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into 1960s Nassau port activity.
Historical context: The view documents a coastal port landscape where tourism-era home movies also recorded industrial waterfront infrastructure and shipping activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or vessel identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Researchers may match this to searches for 1964 Nassau Bahamas 8mm harbor view, vintage Caribbean port footage, storage tanks, ships, and home-movie waterfront panorama.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Nassau 1964 material, then broader Caribbean harbor, ship, coastal city, or industrial waterfront footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Nassau harbor seen from an elevated viewpoint, with storage tanks, docked vessels, water, clouds, and dark edges framing the 8mm shot. — Elevated view across Nassau harbor with storage tanks and ships under a partly cloudy sky.

Nassau, Bahamas port waterfront in 1964, showing tank farms, a docked ship, harbor water, distant shoreline, clouds, and dark foreground framing. — Port tanks and a docked ship line the Nassau waterfront in a wide harbor view.

1964 8mm view over Nassau harbor, with a large vessel near storage tanks, low waterfront buildings, distant land, and foreground foliage. — A large vessel sits near storage tanks in a soft 8mm view over Nassau harbor.

End of the 1964 Nassau harbor pan, showing a docked ship, tank storage, open water, distant shoreline, clouds, and foliage at the frame edge. — The pan settles on a docked ship and tank storage along the Nassau harbor waterfront.

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